Sanitizing Jakarta: decolonizing planning and kampung imaginary
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Sanitizing Jakarta : decolonizing planning and kampung imaginary. / Putri, Prathiwi Widyatmi.
In: Planning Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2019, p. 805-825.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sanitizing Jakarta
T2 - decolonizing planning and kampung imaginary
AU - Putri, Prathiwi Widyatmi
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article offers a critical view of the water and sanitation sector within the broader trajectory of Jakarta’s spatial development and planning. Its territorial focus is on kampungs and it traces their historical journey from the periphery of the colonial city – Batavia and its modern planning domain – to the centre of the post-independence planning regime. ‘Kampung’ is an indigenous term for rural-agricultural settlements. In the colonial period, it was used to label non-European and non-Chinese settlements in and around the city. Colonial modernity created certain stigmatizations: kampungs came to be seen as undisciplined and insanitary communities, sources of insurgency and threats to public health. But the kampung realm was also (re)produced through practices of segregation within the colonial planning system. The imaginaries of colonial modernity linger on within today’s planning practices, resulting in a persistent failure to improve the environmental health of kampungs and the city as a whole. Postcolonial kampungs remain as a cosmopolitan enclave open to different cultures and socio-political contestations. The article argues that, given the kampung’s resilience in varying socio-ecological conditions, urban kampungs should be seen not as a problem, but as an opportunity for new planning approaches.
AB - This article offers a critical view of the water and sanitation sector within the broader trajectory of Jakarta’s spatial development and planning. Its territorial focus is on kampungs and it traces their historical journey from the periphery of the colonial city – Batavia and its modern planning domain – to the centre of the post-independence planning regime. ‘Kampung’ is an indigenous term for rural-agricultural settlements. In the colonial period, it was used to label non-European and non-Chinese settlements in and around the city. Colonial modernity created certain stigmatizations: kampungs came to be seen as undisciplined and insanitary communities, sources of insurgency and threats to public health. But the kampung realm was also (re)produced through practices of segregation within the colonial planning system. The imaginaries of colonial modernity linger on within today’s planning practices, resulting in a persistent failure to improve the environmental health of kampungs and the city as a whole. Postcolonial kampungs remain as a cosmopolitan enclave open to different cultures and socio-political contestations. The article argues that, given the kampung’s resilience in varying socio-ecological conditions, urban kampungs should be seen not as a problem, but as an opportunity for new planning approaches.
KW - colonial modernity
KW - community development
KW - Jakarta
KW - urban kampungs
KW - urban planning
KW - Urban sanitation
KW - water management
U2 - 10.1080/02665433.2018.1453861
DO - 10.1080/02665433.2018.1453861
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85044293531
VL - 34
SP - 805
EP - 825
JO - Planning Perspectives
JF - Planning Perspectives
SN - 0266-5433
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 196204158